Box for pens, &amp;c.



PATENTED JUNE 11, 1907.

e. E. CHANDLER.

BOX FOR PENS, 6w.

APPLICATION IILED JULY 5, 1906.

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GILBERT E. CHANDLER, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

Box FOR PENS, &o.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 11, 1907.

Application filed July 5, 1906. s mi No. 324,770.

To aZ/I whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GILBERT E. CHANDLER, a citizen of the United States, residing in Cambridge, in the county of lviiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Boxes for Pens and other Small Articles, of which the following is a specification.

This is an improved box, made preferably of pasteboard or other light material, and especially adapted for pens, although it may be utilized as a receptacle for other small articles. This box comprises two receptacles in the form of drawers, one of which is occupied by the unused or new pens, which may be placed therein by the pen manufacturer; and the other is adapted to receive the used pens as fast as they are discarded.

The nature of the invention is fully described below, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved pen-box with the parts in a closed position; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a similar section with the upper drawer sufficiently w thdrawn to allow access to the fresh pens therein and also to allow a used pen to drop into the lower drawer.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre- .s pending parts.

a and I) represent two drawers or trays contained respectively in two boxes 0 and (I, placed one above the other, said boxes being both open at their front ends and allowing the drawers to be withdrawn. The boxes 0 and (Z are held rigidly in the position indicated, and secured together in any suitable manner, preferably by means of a strong band 6 of fabric or other suitable material which extends around the sides and back and is adhesively secured thereto. I do not however confine myself to this particular method of securing the boxes together, as any suitable construction of the boxes may be adopted which will allow the drawers to slide with sufficient freedom.

The top 0 of the box 0 is provided atits rear end with a transverse slot or opening 9, which preferably extends the entire width of said top. The top (1 of the lower box (I and the bottom 0 of the upper box 0 are provided at their rear ends with coincident openings or slots 7L which are somewhat wider tend preferably the whole width of said parts (1 and 0 As these two parts constitute practically a horizontal partition, the slots it constitute a single passage. Inside the upper drawer a next its rear end, is a platform /c which is supported flush with the upper edges of the drawer in any suitableinanner, the manner shown consisting of a pair of integral legs or supports a which extend along the opposite inner surfaces of the sides of said drawer and rest on the bottom thereof. This platform is somewhat wider than the opening 9, and preferably not quite as wide as the opening it. Suitable pulls or handles 8 are secured to the drawers as shown, whereby they may be withdrawn.

As the box comes from the manufacturer the upper drawer is full of fresh pens and closed. After a pen has been taken from the upper drawer and the drawer again closed, when a fresh pen is desired the old pen is laid within the slot 9 and upon the platform 7c. YVhen the upper drawer a is withdrawn sufficiently for the purpose of obtaining a fresh pen, its withdrawal moves the platform ft from the position indicated in Figs. 1 and 2 to that indicated. in Fig. 3, and the old pen is thereby pushed off said platform and allowed to drop through the space behind the upper drawer and through the opening or passage 72 into the lower drawer f). The upper drawer is then returned to its original closed position and remains in such position until an old pen is to be disposed of by laying it within the slot g and on the platform It, and dropped into the lower drawer by the opening of the upper drawer to obtain a fresh pen.

The platform 75 is made wider than the slot g in order to preclude any possibility of the old pen sticking between the edgeof the plat form and the edge of the slot g, or dropping into the upper drawer; and the passage a is made sufficiently broad to prevent the pen, as it drops, from obtaining lodgment on the horizontal partition between the two drawers.

When the lower drawer is full its contents may be disposed of, and as the drawers are substantially of the same size the lower drawer becomes full when the upper drawer has been emptied of its contents.

It is evident that the pen-box provides a much greater space which can be utilized for advertising matter than an ordinary pen-box, besides furnishing a complete and accessithan the slot gsa y, twice as wideand cx- 1 ble receptacle for the discarded pens.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A box or receptacle for the purpose described, comprising two boxes set one upon the other and rigidly secured together, the

registering with and closing said slot in the upper box when the upper drawer is in a closed position.

2. A box or receptacle for the purpose described, comprising two compartments one above the other, the top of the upper co1npartment being provided with a slot or opening and the horizontal partition between the two compartments being provided with a slot or opening under the opening in the top of the upper compartment, a sliding drawer in the lower compartment, a sliding drawer in the upper compartment, and a platform supported within the upper drawer and reg istering with and closing said slot in the top of the upper compartment when the upper drawer is in a closed position.

3. A box or receptacle for the purpose described, comprising two compartinents one above the other, the top of the upper compartment being provided with a slot or opening and the horizontal partition between the two compartments being provided with a slot or opening under the opening in the top of the upper compartment somewhat broader than the opening in the upper compartment, a sliding drawer in the lower compartment, a sliding drawer in the upper compartment, and a platform supported within the upper drawer flush with its upper edge and somewhat broader than the slot in the upper compartment, said platform registering with and closing said slot in the upper compartment when the upper drawer is in a closed position. In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GILBERT E. CHANDLER. WVitnesses:

HENRY V. WILLIAMs, M. A. ATwooD. 

